16 Dec 25 @ 16:47

A quiet but consequential shift is under way in US financial regulation. Five prominent digital asset firms — Circle, Ripple, Fidelity Digital Assets, BitGo and Paxos — have secured conditional... read more

15 Dec 25 @ 16:21

The first trend in Global Payments’ 2026 Commerce and Payment Trends Report marks a decisive shift in how transactions are initiated and executed: AI is evolving from a passive recommendation... read more

12 Dec 25 @ 16:15

Agentic AI represents a decisive break from the assistive technologies that have defined the past decade of fintech innovation. These systems do not merely recommend or optimise; they evaluate options,... read more

09 Dec 25 @ 13:22

A2A payments have long promised to rebalance the economics of digital commerce. This year, their ascent has begun to look less like a thought experiment and more like a structural... read more

04 Dec 25 @ 14:07

Financial fraud has always been a moving target. From cheque fraud to phishing, criminals consistently adapt their methods to exploit weaknesses in the financial system. Yet in 2025, the contest... read more

03 Dec 25 @ 13:38

Cryptocurrency spent years on the sidelines of commerce, viewed as an interesting idea rather than a practical payment tool. That’s shifted fast. Merchants want faster settlement, fewer payment failures, and... read more

27 Nov 25 @ 19:26

Switzerland has taken a significant step towards a more open financial ecosystem with the launch of multibanking services for private customers, powered by the bLink Open Banking platform operated by... read more

27 Nov 25 @ 17:47

A new wave of invisible cyberattacks is sweeping through online retail, exploiting the busiest shopping months of the year and striking consumers where they feel safest: on legitimate e-commerce sites.... read more

27 Nov 25 @ 17:10

Agentic AI is no longer the stuff of forward-looking conference panels. It is beginning to reshape how commerce functions at a fundamental level, ushering in a world in which digital... read more

25 Nov 25 @ 17:52

Kraken is making its boldest push yet to position crypto as a viable everyday financial rail, unveiling a series of upgrades to its Krak app that take direct aim at... read more

25 Nov 25 @ 13:40

Ecommpay is urging online retailers to rethink the role of their payments teams, arguing that the function has shifted from operational overhead to a proven generator of margin and customer... read more

24 Nov 25 @ 16:09

ID-Pal has unveiled a significant upgrade to its document-fraud detection technology, ID-Detect, as financial institutions confront a sharp rise in AI-generated manipulation and deepfake-based attacks. With regulators warning that synthetic... read more

20 Nov 25 @ 13:45

AI is about to redefine banking as we know it — not by digitising existing processes, but by taking the act of banking out of consumers’ hands entirely. According to... read more

19 Nov 25 @ 18:04

The payments industry is entering one of the most consequential periods of change in its modern history – and a lot rests on the rails it runs on. Consumer habits,... read more

18 Nov 25 @ 09:00

As the global crypto market heats up again, XRP (Ripple) has become the new market focus. Multiple analysis institutions predict that with the first spot XRP ETF entering the final... read more

06 Nov 25 @ 17:47

Europe’s largest ticketing provider, CTS Eventim, has become the first major e-commerce company in Germany to integrate Wero, the new pan-European digital wallet developed under the European Payments Initiative (EPI).... read more

05 Nov 25 @ 19:50

Artificial intelligence is quietly transforming how the UK shops online, with new research from Worldpay revealing that AI-powered shopping assistants could account for £29 billion in UK e-commerce spending by... read more

03 Nov 25 @ 18:53

Worldline has announced a strategic partnership with Fipto, a European fintech specialising in stablecoin payment infrastructure, to develop the next generation of digital payment rails. The collaboration aims to demonstrate... read more

03 Nov 25 @ 18:40

The world’s leading artificial intelligence developers are racing to close a major security loophole that could expose companies—including those in the payments sector—to sophisticated new cyberattacks. Firms such as Google... read more

31 Oct 25 @ 12:00

The US District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky has issued an injunction halting enforcement of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) Open Banking rule. This leaves banks, credit... read more